Mayan Apocalypse

If you see a homeless guy wearing a "The End is Near" sandwich board do you run for cover?

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No, not really no. I only started to think that there might be some truth behind the whole thing because of all these documentaries, and all these people talking about visions, and these scientists saying that it might happen (and fortunately, they were very much incorrect). We didn't even lose our power grid, thank goodness.

Shows like Doompreppers didn't ease my conscious. In fact, if we were to take into account the Multiverse Theory, I wouldn't be surprised if there were alternate timelines in which the apocalypse did happen, in which the ones that are ridiculed are the ones who survived.

All I know is that this is one of the happiest times for my fears to be wrong! One might even say they were dead wrong!

and these scientists saying that it might happen (and fortunately, they were very much incorrect).

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No reputable scientists said an apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar (or any apocalypse for that matter) was going to happen on December 21st, 2012. The people on those History Channel and Discovery Channel pseudoscience shows are not reputable (and in most cases not even real) scientists. Ancient Aliens guy can give you some tips on overuse of hair gel, but that's about it.

Exactly. All of the doom and gloom is appropriated to a misunderstanding of the way the Mayan calendar works. The Mayans never predicted the end of the world, and as already mentioned in this thread, never put much importance on it. The Mayan calendar works very much like a watch, only on a much bigger scale, with each part of the calendar playing their roles. As it happened, the part of the calendar that was so focused on was longterm. Putting it in perspective, it's like counting down a day, vs the hour, minutes and seconds. Nobody expects chaos when the cycle begins anew to create a new day. So, this calendar is simply restarting to begin a new cycle, and that's all there is to it. Nothing is ending. Pigs are not gonna fly.